Our Mission
To improve patient outcomes with the most-loved clinician support platform that makes clinicians more efficient and allows organizations to effortlessly standardize care
Avo was built for clinicians, by clinicians.
As an internal medicine physician and clinical informatician, Dr. Joongheum Park (“PJ”), like most clinicians today, became burned out by the large amount of medical knowledge and administrative tasks required of him during his time at New York Presbyterian-Columbia. A self-taught engineer and AI expert, PJ decided to develop software applications that would help him save time and make more informed clinical decisions. While conducting a fellowship at Columbia University in informatics, Dr. Yair Saperstein met PJ and described his frustrations with clinical pathways, having served on the implementation team for multiple Epic go-lives only to realize that clinicians don’t have time to actually use the pathways given to them in the EHR.
Together, they decided it was time to ditch thousands of pages of PDF guidelines, overwhelming paper protocols, and sticky note reminders, and instead give clinicians an easy way to practice evidence-based care, while also reducing burnout. PJ and Yair teamed up with Laurence Coman, the son of two physicians who had a passion for marrying technology and healthcare, and founded Avo to build technology that transforms the practice of medicine for the better.
Leadership Team
Founder / Head of Product & Engineering / Chairman
Founder / CEO
Founder / COO
Chief Commercial Officer
VP of Marketing
VP of Provider Sales
VP of Life Sciences
Director of Product
Director of Implementation
Head of Korea Ops
Lead Engineer
Lead Product Designer
Advisory Board
President at Acclaim Physician Group, Ex-CMO at DaVita
Former Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery at University of Chicago
CEO at University Hospital of Brooklyn
FQHC CFO and Hospital Finance
Sales Exec @ Salesforce, Mobile Expert, Entrepreneur
CEO of Cecilia Health, Former CFO of UpToDate
Vice President of Quality and Safety, PM Pediatric Care
Former Managing Director of HCIT Banking Group at Cain Brothers
Children’s Minnesota, Medical Director of Quality Improvement
Cofounder and Chief Product Officer of Spatial, UI/UX Expert
Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University